"The Galleria of Learning Development of a learning centre in Stockholm University including the Str

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"The Galleria of Learning Development of a
learning centre in Stockholm University including
the Strategy for Information Literacy in the
Nordic Countries

• Meeting on "Managementof Organizations of
  Services in a Resource Center for Learning and
  Research"
• REBIUN and Universidad de Granada May 2005
• Christina Tovoté
• Information Literacy Coordinator, Pedagogical
  developer
• Stockholm University Library, Sweden

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Contents

• Presentation
• Experiences from two very different universities
• A new kind of student and the new pedagogical
  challenge
• The Learning Galleria at Stockholm University
• Research and trends around the world
• The Nordic Information Literacy Forum
• Reaching out?
• The EU and EnIL
• IFLA
• Discussion

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Or..

• Quien soy yo?
• Porque estoy aqui?
• Que cosas puedo dar o enseñar a vosotros?
• Qien es nuestra manera en SUB y porque?
• Qienes son los actores?
• En quel escena?
• Qienes son nuestros adjuntos?
• Y fuera?

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Presentation

• City of Lund PR-librarian, Information officer
• Malmö University User Education, Information,
  Internationalisation
• Stockholm University Pedagogical developer
• The Swedish Library Association PR committee,
  Board member
• The Swedish Society for Technical Documentation
  Publishing and Training
• NORDINFOlit chair of the steering board
• EnIL member
• IFLA At first secretary Management and
  Marketing Section, now Information Literacy
  Section

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Two very different universities

• Malmö University one of the brand new,
  established 1998, already 21 000 students,
• 1 300 staff members, the eighth largest in
  Sweden
• Stockholm University one of the three largest,
  established 1878, 34 000 students,
• 3 400 in the staff

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Malmö University

• Wider recruitment
• Multi-scientific schools
• Profile areas migration and etnicity,
  environment and gender studies

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Öresund university

• Lund University
• Malmö University
• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Copenhagen University
• Danish University of Technology
• Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Adm,
• Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College
• Danish School of Education
• Danish College of Pharmacy
• Roskilde University Centre
• Danish School of Librarianship

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Academic Services at Malmö university

• Organisation Library and IT
• 4 faculty libraries
• Special staff recruitment
• User orientated
• Strong accent on the pedagogical task
• Aiming at a Learning Resource Centre

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Stockholm University
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Stockholm University -some facts

• 4 faculties
• Humanities
• Social sciences
• Natural sciences
• Law
• 80 institutions
• 34 000 studenter, 3 500 staff
• Campus university
• Decentralised

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Stockholm University Library

• One of Sweden's oldest and largest research
  libraries, founded in 1878
• One of Stockholm's most frequented cultural
  institutions with about 2 million visitors a year
• A Main Library with a textbook collection, 12
  branch libraries
• Around 130 employees

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A new kind of student?

• The non traditional
• The older
• The distance student

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The new pedagogical challenge

• To be visible, change the attitudes, market IL as
  a core activity, play an important role, take the
  lead
• Key words Team, Cooperation, Integration

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The project User education for non tradiditional
groups

• A new pedagogy?
• Two parts theoretical and practical
• The Reference group
• Co-operation between university- and public
  libraries
• Marketing and groups
• Problems and success
• Continuation?

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SUB Why, what, who and how

• Information literacy and the Swedish law of
  higher education All students shall develop the
  capacity to search and evaluate knowledge on a
  scientific level and follow the scientific
  development
• The role of the university library to support
  teachers and institutions to reach the goals of
  that law
• Librarians/pedagogues AND faculty together
• IL programmes, educating the teachers, digital
  courses, teamworking, integration

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SUBs organisation before 2005
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From the Department of Education and Information
Literacy, to a group called Pedagogical Forum

• 8 persons from every dept
• 30 35 teaching librarians from all depts
• Courses on all levels
• Pedagogical development, support for colleagues,
  co-teaching, critical friends, competence
  courses, webb-pages as shared support, contacts
  and integration
• UPiToP University Pedagogics in Theory and
  Practice together with the faculty (The
  governmental decree of ped. development for all
  university teachers)

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The project The Learning Galleria

• A vision of how the University could use
  information and communication technology in the
  future
• Report The future usage of ICT at Stockholm
  University, March 2000.
• Using the concept Learning Centre to describe
  the vision and scenario
• Project time 2001 - 2003

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Model A Learning centre

• Characteristics
• Students and teachers needs in focus
• Service, self service, information provision,
  pedagogics, teamwork and IT
• Cooperation between library, IT functions,
  IT-pedagogues, teachers, administrators support
  functions and institutions

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Three parts of the LRC
The physical LRC
The virtual LRC
The Educational Learning Lab
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What happens now in reality?

• The institutions carry on their IT-pedagogical
  projects, presentations in lunch seminars
• Inspiration seminars Swedish gurus well known
  from the media Learning in new forms,Computer
  games in a learning context etc
• Courses for teachers Dreamweaver, How to make a
  course website
• Evaluation of course platforms
• The student portal
• Information and support, updating of needs
• Three guardians became two
• Open workshops
• The written agreement and problems in reality

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Discussion inside the library

• Why do we have it?
• How do we get everybody to feel involved?
• How do we play down?
• Confidence, slow learning, proper citeria,
  reference knowledge (whom to ask)
• Usersneeds?
• Our needs?
• What can be done right away?
• In the long run?
• Obstacles? Opportunities?
• A week full of librarians?

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Some good examples

• Model lessons in Literature History and
  Environmental Programme
• A Blackboard distance course
• Open workshops in the Galleria
• Seminars with experience exchange
• Visiting each others seminars

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Trends and research

• In Sweden
• Library plans
• Special groups in Library Associations
• Employment of educational developers
• Pedagogical competence development
• Teamworking and integration very slowly
• Focus on pedagogy in higher education
• The recently started investigation into IL
  programmes in Swedish universities
• Evidence based IL education outcomes

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And in the rest of the Nordic countries?

• Mapping and reporting
• The political level (Finland)
• www.nordinfolit.org

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NORDINFOlit, a Nordic Information Literacy Forum

• Four tracks
• ImmersionSummer school
• ConferenceCreating Knowledge
• IL Standards or Guidelines seminars
• Website

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ENIL - European Network for Information Literacy

• The first meeting in Rome 29 - 30 January 2004
• The book Information Literacy in Europe
• Problems with aggreement of membership, openess,
  even the IL concept!
• EU-projekt? Only research?
• European Driving Licence for IL?
• An IL Questionnaire to all new students in all EU
  countries
• EnIL home

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IFLA

• New section The Section on Information Literacy
• The presidential theme of Kay Raseroka from
  Botswana Literacies of all kinds
• IL something for almost all sections
• Action list Guidelines, best papers, electronic
  classroom, website directory etc.
• Future programmes teamworking, evidence based
  research
• Oslo 2005 joint session with MM IL, a voyage
  of discovery for citizens and librarians
• Seoul 2006 pre-conference in China
• Cooperation with UNESCO
• Prague 2003 Alexandria 2005

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Discussion

• Information literacy - do we have a monopoly?
• Is the concept comprehensible?
• Do we aggree upon it?
• Who should take the lead?
• Teambuilding and integration?
• Reluctance among librarians? Teachers?
• Learning resources centres?

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Addresses

• christina.tovote_at_sub.su.se
• www.sub.su.se
• www.nordinfolit.org/
• www.ceris.to.cnr.it/Basili/EnIL/index.html
• www.ifla.org